Chinook salmon migrate up the Columbia River in Oregon. (Dave Alan/Getty Images) Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a four-part series on salmon that will run in the Idaho Capital Sun on ...

The state of Oregon and environmental and fishing groups are seeking a court order to adjust dam operations to help dwindling salmon populations in the Columbia and Snake rivers. The filing earlier ...

It would be the seventh disaster declaration since 2016 for the state’s coastal salmon fisheries, which have been hit by warming waters and drought from climate change. FILE - This August 2017 photo ...

Oregon and Washington have relaxed all restrictions on Columbia River salmon fishing through at least the end of September. It includes reopening of sport salmon fishing between Cathlamet, Wash., and ...

For the first time in more than a century, salmon will soon have free passage along the Klamath River and its tributaries — a major watershed near the California-Oregon border — as the largest dam ...

On a recent morning in March, while dew was still on the road, there occurred the salmon smolt mishap of northeast Oregon. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said on Tuesday that one of its ...

The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to dwindling numbers of fish, ...

For Snake River Chinook salmon and steelhead, the threshold is fewer than 50 adult fish in a population returning from the ocean for four consecutive years. Below that floor, the population’s ...

Chinook salmon, pictured here, is Oregon’s official state fish and is of high cultural value to Northwest tribes and high economic value to Oregon’s coastal economies. (Photo courtesy of Pacific ...